Psalms 56:13

Borrowed with slight variations in Psalms 116:8.

For thou hast delivered&c. He takes his stand in the future and looks back upon deliverance granted. Cp. Psalms 54:7.

wilt notthou deliver my feet from falling Yea, my feet from stumbling: lit., -hast thou notdelivered my feet from thrusting?" i.e. not only saved me from death, but upheld me when the foe "thrustsore at me that I might fall" (Psalms 118:13; cp. Psalms 36:12).

thatI may walk before God Not simply live in His Presence and under His protection, but serve Him acceptably. So the LXX, τοῦ εὐαρεστῆσαι ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ; cp. Hebrews 11:5-6. Cp. Genesis 17:1; Genesis 24:40; Psalms 61:7: and Genesis 5:22; Genesis 5:24; Genesis 6:9.

in the light of the living Or, of life. "The land of the living" (Psalms 27:13; Psalms 116:9) is the land of light contrasted with the darkness of the grave (Job 33:28; Job 33:30); it is illuminated by the Presence of God (Psalms 36:9), from Whom comes all that is worthy to be called happiness. What to the Psalmist was a present and temporal truth, receives for the Christian a spiritual and eternal meaning. Cp. John 8:12, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life."